Adoption Research Initiative
What's the ARi?
The ARi is a group of major research projects which focuses on permanence planning, matching, support for adoptive placements and the costs of adoption. The ARi was commissioned by the former Department for Education and Skills. The dissemination and implementation programme has been funded by the Department for Education.
The findings from the projects hold key messages for all who are concerned with securing permanence and stability for children who cannot live with their birth parents.
Click here for more information about the background to, and aims of, the ARi.
What's new
Adoption for looked after children: messages from research: An overview of the Adoption Research Initiative has been published. Click here to download.
Hard copies of the book are also available from BAAF’s bookshop.
ARi resources
Summaries
These are 4/5-page documents giving key findings and messages for practice. Ten of the eleven have now been published.
Research Briefs
Longer summaries - a full set is now available.
Research Reports
Details of the availability of full reports from BAAF.
Talks and presentations
Interviews with ARi researchers
Other Interviews
Practice tools
Update service
The update service will alert you by email to information about ARi conferences and events, and new publications as they become available. Please enter your details below. Your name and email address are required.
To try to ensure the ARi newsletters aren’t delivered to your ‘junk’ or ‘spam’ folders it’s recommended that you add news@adoptionresearchinitiative.org.uk to your email contacts.
